re: time for another crusade

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The infrastructure, finances, and support that some of these terrorist groups have is pretty substantial, and it is much more feasible for a non-state actor to do something crazy, like set off a large bomb in a U.S. city.

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He said, "wipe us off the face if the earth."

Yes, a bomb could go off in a major city, but the chances of being killed by a terrorist are so small that being afraid of it is the definition if moronic.

It's like being afraid of being in a mass shooting.

Yes, I'm equating people who fear being killed by a terrorist to anti-gun nuts who fear mass shootings every day.

They are both irrational.

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Odds are still low, but I'd put money on being hit by an Islamic terrorist group before NK.

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I'd say the odds of me being hit by either are so low that they practically equal.